Zutillo installation : perhaps I'm a numbskull
5.0.96-beta.4+cd63f96ee
I fear that I am missing something very basic. Please advise.
I've tried several times over the past year (every version since v3.2.0) to download from GitHub and install Zutillo on my Mac (10.15.7 (19H114)). I haven't written a help request before now because I thought that I was sufficiently savvy to be able to figure this out for myself but _No_. I cannot seem to download the xpi file using Firefox put I can capture the xpi file via Chrome by dragging and dropping it into my download folder. When I try to add it to Zotero Tools -Add-ons - Install add-ons from file and select the zutillo.xpi file. I receive the following error message:
The add-on "%S" could not be installed. It may be incompatible with this version of Zotero.
I fear that I am missing something very basic. Please advise.
I've tried several times over the past year (every version since v3.2.0) to download from GitHub and install Zutillo on my Mac (10.15.7 (19H114)). I haven't written a help request before now because I thought that I was sufficiently savvy to be able to figure this out for myself but _No_. I cannot seem to download the xpi file using Firefox put I can capture the xpi file via Chrome by dragging and dropping it into my download folder. When I try to add it to Zotero Tools -Add-ons - Install add-ons from file and select the zutillo.xpi file. I receive the following error message:
The add-on "%S" could not be installed. It may be incompatible with this version of Zotero.
I'm not sure what file you are downloading, but this is the current release Zutilo .xpi: https://github.com/wshanks/Zutilo/releases/download/v3.6.1/zutilo.xpi
If you download that, then drag it onto the Zotero add-ons window, does that work? It works for me.
Interesting. If I use the gear drop-down to install the add-on from file, I receive the error message in my earlier post. If I drag the file into the Add-ons manager it works.
Thank you again.
(Note that you can certainly download the file in Firefox. You just need to use right-click and "Save Link As…" on the XPI link instead of left-clicking.)
https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex/issues/1483
@DWL-SDCA: You could rename the .xpi file to .zip and try to open it. If the Zotero plugin is valid, the zip file should have a structure as explained here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/19246679.